An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

Every challenge you encounter is part of the life’s journey. The challenges must be overcome for the vision to be fulfilled.

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons.

Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Screw the Silent Brothers." "No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky." "Isabelle!

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.